Tester of the TRT front-end electronics for the ATLAS-experiment

Author

Hajduk, Z. ; Jurkiewicz, P. ; Kisieiewski, B. ; Kotarba, A. ; Malecki, P. ; Natkaniec, Z. ; Olszowska, J. ; Ostrowicz, W. ; Krupinska, G.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Nucl. Phys., Cracow, Poland

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

126

Lastpage

130

Abstract

The VME based tester for front-end electronics of the TRT (Transition Radiation Tracker) detector of the ATLAS-LHC experiment at CERN, Geneva, is described. The TRT readout electronics for 424576 proportional tubes grouped on many thousands of cards requires stringent quality control after assembly and during installation. The tester provides all required data, pulses, timing and power supplies for tested cards. The essential part of the tester is its software that allows for device handling as well as facilitates functional and statistical tests. The prototype, present design as well as the new design for mass production tests are discussed

Keywords

nuclear electronics; readout electronics; test equipment; ATLAS-experiment; Transition Radiation Tracker detector; VME based tester; front-end electronics; readout electronics; tester; Assembly; Electron tubes; Electronic equipment testing; Pulsed power supplies; Quality control; Radiation detectors; Readout electronics; Software prototyping; Software testing; Timing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Real Time Conference, 1999. Santa Fe 1999. 11th IEEE NPSS

Conference_Location

Sante Fe, NM

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5463-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RTCON.1999.842581

Filename

842581